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Location: Griffin Auditorium
Date: Monday, 16/June/2025
09:00 - 09:40Opening Plenary
Location: Griffin Auditorium
09:00-09:05- Introduction and housekeeping
09:05-09:15- Welcome to the University of Chicago
09:15-09:30- Steering Committee welcome
09:30-09:40- Program Committee welcome
09:40 - 10:30Keynote speaker Heather Joseph
Location: Griffin Auditorium
As the Executive Director of SPARC, Heather Joseph is an internationally renowned and well-respected expert in open research policies, practices, and implementation strategies. Under her stewardship, SPARC has become the leading advocacy organization that promotes innovative, open, and equitable global systems of research and education.
11:00am - 12:30pmPresentations- Repository sustainability and future-proofing
Location: Griffin Auditorium
13:30 - 15:00Presentations- Standards, Accessibility and Digital Preservation
Location: Griffin Auditorium
15:30 - 16:30Minute Madness
Location: Griffin Auditorium
Date: Tuesday, 17/June/2025
09:00 - 10:30Presentations- Advocacy and the Human Touch
Location: Griffin Auditorium
11:00 - 12:30Presentations- Software: repositories, metadata and citations
Location: Griffin Auditorium
13:30 - 15:00Presentations- AI and Repositories
Location: Griffin Auditorium
15:30 - 17:00Presentations- DSpace 2
Location: Griffin Auditorium
Date: Wednesday, 18/June/2025
09:00 - 10:30Presentations- Research Data Preservation
Location: Griffin Auditorium
11:00 - 11:50Keynote speaker Ben Zhao
Location: Griffin Auditorium
Ben Zhao is Neubauer Professor of Computer Science at University of Chicago. He is a Fellow of the ACM, a TED/AI speaker, and was recently named to TIME Magazine’s AI/100, 100 most influential people in AI. He has spent the last 3 years building tools that shield visual artists (and other creatives) from non-consensual training and image mimicry.
11:50 - 12:30Closing Plenary
Location: Griffin Auditorium